Wellsville Fire Chief Larry Anderson said a wheelchair-bound man in his 60s was flown to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore after his clothing caught fire Wednesday night.

Emergency personnel was called out to a home in the 500 block of South Kralltown Road, Washington Township around 8:25 p.m.

Anderson said the man got too close to the heater in his chair and his clothes caught on fire. The man's mother tried to put out the flames by covering him with her jacket. She then threw a bucket of water on him and extinguished the flames.

The man had burns on all of his extremities, Anderson said.

The mother was not injured, and there was no damage to the home other than some burns on the floor, he added.